This anthology of Solnits essential essays from the past ten years takes the reader from the Pyrenees to the U.S.-Mexican border, from open sky to the deepest m

It's 1945 and Europe lies in ruins, the Nazi war machine defeated. Now, America's only option to end the war is Operation Olympus - the invasion of Japan.

They came by boat from a starving land—and by the Underground Railroad from Southern chains—seeking refuge in a crowded, filthy corner of hell at the bottom

Powerful, eloquent, and paced like a thriller, Strange Piece of Paradise is the electrifying account of the author's investigation into her near murder.

"Including Paradise lost, Paradise regain'd & 50 other works" -- Cover.